4 Oct
2019
4 Oct
'19
1:20 a.m.
On 16/8/19 9:55 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
For cross-compatibility with autotools, a dist tarball created from either meson or autotools should have everything needed to build with either build system. This ensures that all the files which "make dist" would make available, are available.
In order for this to work, autogen.sh needs to know how to enter the dist working directory, and fail if it cannot successfully cd or run autoreconf. (It's fine if patch fails because the patch was already applied.)
I don't think this is necessary. The transition is from autotools to meson. We need to distribute meson files with autotools until a point comes where we swap to meson. Meson tarballs do not need to distribute autotools files. Allan